How to install Oxwall on CentOS

Oxwall is an open source social networking software written in PHP. It is used to create and manage Social Network and community based websites. Oxwall has many flexible and easy to use plugins and extensions available at the Oxwall Store.

This install guide assumes that Apache, MySQL and PHP are already installed and configured on your Linux VPS. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest stable version of Oxwall is 1.8.1 and it requires:

Open http://your-domain.com in your popular web browser and follow the easy instructions; set website title, admininistrator email address and login credentials, enter database information, then copy and paste the code shown on the ‘Finalizing install’ page replacing the existing one into ‘/var/www/html/oxwall/ow_includes/config.php’ file.

Create a cron job to run ‘/var/www/html/oxwall/ow_cron/run.php’ script every minute:

* * * * * wget -q -O /dev/null http://your-domain.com/ow_cron/run.php

Install Oxwall plugins of your choice and click ‘Finish’. For security reason, it is recommended to delete the ‘/var/www/html/oxwall/ow_install/’ directory:

rm -rf /var/www/html/oxwall/ow_install/

That is it. The Oxwall installation is now complete. Log in to the Admin area at http://your-domain.com/admin , configure Oxwall according to your needs and start building your Social Network website.

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